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No Surprise Here: Police Regularly Deny Access to Officer Video Footage
When 22-year-old Stephon Clark was shot and killed by two police officers in the backyard of his grandparents’ house in March 2018, the Sacramento Police Department released officer body camera footage as well as footage captured by a Sacramento sheriff’s helicopter within days of the shooting. The city has its own transparency policy that requires…
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Whoa! Whoa! Hold on There! GOP Senators Seek to Stop Trump From ‘Acting Like a King’
Remember last month when your little “president” declared a national emergency because he wasn’t getting the money for his stupid wall he felt he should get? Well, apparently some Republican senators have grown sick of his shit, because Newsweek is reporting that more than a dozen of them have filed legislation that would limit Donald…
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737 Death Row Inmates in California Get a Reprieve From Gov. Gavin Newsom
There are 737 people on death row in California, and on Tuesday, Gov. Gavin Newsom gave them all a reprieve because he believes the death penalty is immoral and discriminatory. The San Francisco Chronicle reports that Newsom will issue an executive order on Wednesday to officially declare a moratorium on capital punishment in the state…
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This White People College Cheating Scam Is the Perfect Example of Why We Need Affirmative Action
Whenever people try to tell me that affirmative action admissions policies give black people (and by extension other nonblack people of color) an unfair advantage, I always have to remind them that the deck is stacked against us in the first place. White privilege, systemic and institutionalized racism and nepotism are some of the biggest…
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For MAGAts Who Need Safe Spaces, There’s an App For That
It’s hard out here for Trump supporters who wear MAGA hats. That red hat has become as incendiary as a Ku Klux Klan hood, and people who wear the hat are often met with the same level of ire and “what the fuck is this shit” as they would be if they walked into an…
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Jussie Smollett Indicted on 16 Felony Charges Related to the Alleged Attack Against Him
An Illinois grand jury has indicted Empire actor Jussie Smollett on 16 felony charges related the alleged hate attack he reported on Jan. 29. The Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office confirmed with ABC7 that the 16-count indictment was returned by the grand jury on Thursday. On Feb. 20, Smollett was charged with one felony count…
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#StephonClark: U.S. Department of Justice Launches Civil Rights Investigation Into Shooting
After both the Sacramento district attorney and the California state attorney general both declined to press criminal charges against the officers who shot and killed 22-year-old Stephon Clark in the backyard of his grandparents’ home nearly a year ago, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Tuesday that it would be launching a civil rights investigation…
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#NetNeutrality: Pelosi, et al Plan to ‘Save the Internet’
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Monday that House Democrats plan to introduce a bill that would replace the open internet protections that were in place until the Federal Communications Commission repealed them in December 2017. The Hill reports that Pelosi wrote a letter to her colleagues advising that the bill, called the “Save the…
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Candace Owens Thinks Racism Is ‘Over’ Because She Has ‘Never Been a Slave’
Just when you thought the rhetoric spewed by conservative pundit and token “Trump-loving” black woman Candace Owens couldn’t get any worse, she had a veritable “hold my beer” moment during the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) on Friday when she said racism doesn’t exist in America because she herself has never been a slave. No,…
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#StephonClark: No Criminal Charges For Officers Who Killed Unarmed Black Man
“I want to start by saying a few things, the most important of which is an apology to the Clark family.” Those were the words of Sacramento County District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert as she took the podium just after 3 p.m. EST Saturday to begin the press conference in which she ultimately revealed that…
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